| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

David Henige. Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 532. $47.95.

David Henige is above all a historiographer, and in particular a historiographer with an impressive range of linguistic skills and bibliographic knowledge. As such, he has become profoundly irritated by the careless treatment of historical sources by historians and anthropologists working on the history of early European contact with Native peoples of the Americas. This book resulted from his desire to grapple with a particular subgenre of this work: the historical demography of American Native people before, during, and subsequent to contact with Europeans, and especially arguments during the last thirty years for a very large precontact population brought low by European disease in a remarkably short period of time. The focus on critical source study is evident: fully half of the 532 pages are devoted to notes and bibliography. . . .

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